1. I think that crying is dear to us because as humans we want to feel some pity, but it also is a good way to express anything wrong or bad that is going on in our lives. There is a way in which the tears pouring from the eyes of the strongest person can heal. Broken hearts can become new again from simply crying to God with our sorrows. He comforts us, but we as human soften need to be reminded, we are forgetful people. Somehow crying puts the grief aside, and heals up broken pieces, because we are suddenly weak and must rely on something or someone else to sustain and care for us.
2. My ideas are slightly similar, although he seems to lay more on the idea that we think God may hear us better through our sorrows.
3. I believe that the things which prove false are referring to those things of the world. Things that do not have to do with God, are not
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This means that when praise is spread in sincerity, love is accomplished in three places: There is love coming from the person spreading praise, love that is absorbed through the people who listen, and love that comes from the person being praised to the praiser. However, if the praise is not sincere, it destroys love, breaks hearts and crushes spirits. I agree…. I guess.
5. Augustine believes that his young self was rather obsessed with the idea of beauty, wanting to understand what it. He seems to have really judged who his authority was, and who was admirable by beauty. These are ideas that young, naive Augustine thought.
6. This story isn’t mine, but it was told to me by my good friend. “I was driving my friend out over the lake one morning, really early, and he looked out at the sunset and said, ‘Wow. I haven’t seen a sunrise in years. It’s so beautiful!’ we spoke about how pretty it is and he said that he understood why we thought that the sunrise was so beautiful- because we are part of the sunrise and the sunrise is part of us. I explained that the sunrise was beautiful because God made beautiful